Thursday, October 24, 2013
Niagara Trip Day 3 - White Water Walk/ Whirlpool Aero Car/ Niagara on the lake
3:26 PM
Day 3 - White water walk/ Whirlpool aero car/ Niagara on the lake
It turned cooler on Day 3, temperature was around 11 degrees that morning..
Hubby was surprised I consistently wake up for breakfast haha!
I am actually a bad travel partner, always waking up late & skipping breakfast~
After breakfast, we drove down to White water walk.
Luckily it was a non-peak period, they actually had free parking lots! Whee~
Nice picture taken by a tourist before starting our morning walk!
Whirlpool rapids is the lower part of Niagara Falls ( from my perspective)
Hubby said it is a Class 6 rapids, & to me it means if anyone drop in,
they will probably drown
A simple map to help you understand where are we at!
White water walk is at "whirlpool rapids"
I enjoyed the flow of the rapid and walks like this,
but i dont think so for velle, so snacks will help me occupy her a little~
Walkway along the rapids
As we walk the temperature went up to 16 degrees pheww~
Family photo to end the walk.
Taken by a nice old man (:
He's cute because i initiate to take a picture for him and his friends,
then he instructed me to press the on/off button to snap a picture (which ofcourse i didnt follow)
So after the first shot he told me to press the power button again, then realizing he is wrong~
HAHA he is super embarrassed man..
Next stop, Whirlpool Aero Car!
It is further down of the falls after the rapids whirlpool
Boarded this antique cable car that only operates from the Canada side..
A short ride above the whirlpool rapids, that to me, wasnt that whirlpool-ish
I was expecting literally a boat or fish swallowing whirlpool HAHA!
The whirlpool
rapids from the white water walk
After the whirlpool this is where the water continue to flow~
So pretty & amazing how nature formed
Reach the other end and we were instructed to walk to the other side of the cable car
for a change of view
Trees and more trees~
People down there!
I want to get there too.... but we didnt know how~
Bye! See you again next time!
Continue our journey to Niagara on the Lake~
On our way there, we stop by some scenic point
IT IS SOOO PRETTTYYY~
Following the road along the river,
we finally reached Niagara on the lake.
Their starbucks look like a house!
Their pastry look so good! But the shop has bees flying around their pastry...
I was so scared and turn off. YUCKS
Had our lunch at a quiet cafe,
food wasn't that fantastic
With my little clone while waiting for daddy..
After lunch i insisted to get some buns for velle as she didn't eat much..
A decent bakery further down the road plus it is so clean!
Prices are reasonable too~
We had chocolate croissant, which is so super duper good!
Chocolate oozing out from the centre!!
Soon enough, it was time to head back to the car!
We parked at a some timed parking, and the max was 2 hours~
A big piece of lake~
This, i believe, is the end of niagara river...
The river flows on to Lake Ontario (refer to map above if confused)
Oooo i like this tree!
The owner, who is sitting on his porch, didn't even mind when we slow down for a picture..
Probably used to it already~ haha!
Floral clock of Niagara Falls
This is one of the must see attraction at the Falls, which i have no idea why~~
Last attraction of the day, Niagara Fury
It is included in the Adventure pass we bought..
A 4D show of how Niagara is formed, quite a cool show with lighting and thunder
It was raining when we got out of Niagara Fury,
so we settled our dinner at TGIF at the hotel's lobby.
Their food was good but it came out lukewarm, as if it was left there for quite some time
before it was served.
Hubby was not pleased and brought this up to the waitress..
The manager came to speak to apologize too and offer to heat it up for us.
We didn't want to wait any longer (as we waited for quite some time beforehand),
so we kindly rejected his offer.
When the bill came, he gave us 100% off and we only had to pay for tax which is around $1 plus...
We gave a huge tip to the waitress and left...
Quite happy the manager did this for us! Thank you, even we didn't get your name!
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